FAMILY Mniotiltidx. 



with white patches near the tip; eye-ring and a line over 

 the eye yellow; lower parts bright cadmium yellow 

 throughout; throat, breast, and sides streaked with bright 

 burnt sienna or chestnut. Female similarly marked. 

 Nest on the ground or near it; usually built of coarse 

 grasses lined with finer ones. This bird is common in 

 eastern North America and breeds from Nova Scotia 

 north to Hudson's Bay; it migrates southward through 

 the Atlantic States, and winters in the south Atlantic 

 and Gulf States. 



The song of the Yellow Red-poll is described as a sim- 

 ple trill like that of the Chipping Sparrow; but as I have 

 always failed to discover the bird in a singing mood, I 

 doubt whether his song is very often (hi this part of the 

 country) placed on the spring program. The colors of 

 the Yellow Red-poll are very pretty, though, and his 

 migratory visits so very common that I have ventured 

 to include him in my list with the hope that at some 

 future day he may be found with a voice. The tail is 

 incessantly bobbing, so I do not doubt that he can keep 

 time, and as vrtll, perhaps, as a drum-major I 



Prairie This is one of the tiniest and most de- 

 Warbler lightfui common Warblers, with a charac- 



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discolor tenstic song which runs up the chromatic 



L. 4. 75 Inches scale. Only one other Warbler's voice is 

 May loth like it in this respect, and that belongs 



to the Black-throated Blue. The Prairie Warbler is 

 tastefully but not conspicuously dressed. Upper parts 

 olive green, with the back considerably spotted with 

 burnt sienna or chestnut; wings and tail brownish 

 olive; a single light buff-yellow wing-bar on each wing; 

 inner webs of the outer tail feathers white almost to the 

 tip; a bar of yellow above, another below the eye; in 

 front of and behind the eye black; a broad black stripe 

 extends from the corner of the bill across the cheek; the 

 yellow sides are conspicuously barred with black; under 

 parts light yellow. Female similarly marked, but duller 

 in color and with little or no chestnut on the back. 

 Nest in briers or other tangled bushes or young cedars in 

 partly open ground; it is built of plant fibres and plant 

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